The Keenan Switch heads home.

The final moments of the Erie Mining Co. F units in Minnesota begins to unfold as the Keenan Switch races back to it's namesake yard with the last two F units that were left on the property of the... (more)

DM&IR ore car 40822 was one of 500 in class U-23 delivered during 1948 from Pullman Standard, five years before the Missabe purchased its first diesels. Still in service for CN, the car still reta... (more)

A fitting departure from their home of 59 years finds snow blowing off former Erie Mining F9As 4210 and 4214 as they begin their journey to the Vermilion Valley Railroad in Illinois/Indiana.

The Keenan Switch returns to its namesake with empty bentonite hoppers from Minntac.

A northbound core train passes by the Keenan Switch.

The crew on board will probably need that broom for the switches when they arrive at the U.S. Steel Minntac taconite plant's commercial yard with 16 hoppers of bentonite clay and begin swapping lo... (more)

Long gone from the CN active roster and shown in better days, this SD-M of the former DM&IR/ Missabe Road days was earning it's keep on this snowy New Years Day retrieiving a bad order set-out an... (more)

Fooey on superstition of the day. A sun hole opens at the perfect time.

In the waning hours of a rare for this past winter snowstorm the Keenan Switch crew heads out on their appointed rounds to deliver empty gondolas to one of Minnesota's new mining ventures, Mesabi ... (more)

In the waning aftermath of Snowpocalypse 2012, the Keenan Switch heads out in the elements to deliver a cut of empty gondolas to Mesabi Nugget for loading. The Mesabi Nugget project is a pioneer... (more)

Been a while now that we have seen two maroon Missabe units running the Keenan Switch on the Range, but back in the day this was all you would see.

The stick seanson (otherwise known as late fall) has given way to early winter and snow is falling on northern Minnesota's Iron Range. After completing a delivery to Minntac, the Keenan Switch mak... (more)

The Keenan Switch Job is bound for the Minorca mine with limestone loads on a great summer morning.

The Keenan Switch plows a path back to the yard having died at Wilpen the previous day before the new fresh snow.